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...said one citizen, "he's just another squirrel in the Forest Theater. Why don't they leave him alone?" That is what the council decided last week to do. "Why," said the mayor's wife in retrospect, "Duxbury was just one of those harmless souls who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican...
...experts, who worry about the problem of radioactive wastes, have given close attention to mildly radioactive plutonium. They are not much afraid of short-lived, fiercely radiating isotopes, which can be isolated for a while until their activity has died away. Other isotopes with longer radiant lives are comparatively harmless, too. If they, are eaten or drunk by accident, the body excretes them quickly...
...that it was too late for the U.S. to lock the China stable, Communists were explaining more or less frankly how they had stolen the horse. During the '30s and '40s they had fraudulently advertised Mao Tse-tung and his Chinese Communists as being harmless agrarian reformers -and liberals at home and abroad had rushed for the Red bandwagon. Last week the U.S. Communist Party monthly Political Affairs revealed what Mao himself really thought about liberals; from the July 7 Bombay (India) weekly Crossroads it reprinted an English translation of a little essay Mao had written...
...twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh...
Philpot bought a dozen king snakes and, with the help of his pharmacology professor, Dr. Ralph G. Smith, set about extracting a serum which would be harmless in itself and still neutralize the venom of rattlers and moccasins. The first difficulty was to get enough blood out of a king snake. Eventually, Philpot hit upon the simple idea of cutting off the snakes' tails. In this way, he got as much as 40 cc of blood from a five-foot snake and 20 cc or more of serum from the blood...